Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak telephoned the president of China, according to China’s Xinhua news agency. The report did not indicate whether Barak and Jiang Zemin discussed Israel’s planned sale to Beijing of an advanced airborne warning system, which has drawn intense criticism from the United States.
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